Top 89

Each year, WNKU asks our listeners to cast a vote for their favorite five CDs, to help us compile the year's Top 89 list and begin the countdown in the New Year!  Submissions are entered into a drawing and lucky listeners win CD grab bags and a chance for the grand prize.

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8:35 pm
Fri March 16, 2012

Pledge $10/mo & we'll say thanks by sending you the No. 1 CD of 2011

WNKU listeners voted Revelator the No. 1 CD of 2011 and we want to send it your way as thanks for your support of WNKU at the $120 level.

PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT OF WNKU TODAY

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2:27 pm
Mon January 2, 2012

Top 89 0f 2011

The list is in!  It's the Top 89 CD's of 2011 as voted on by our listeners.  Let the debate begin.  Feel free to leave your comments below, but please keep it kind and remember, this list was decided on by those who voted.  So, if you didn't vote, you can't complain!  Thanks to those who did vote, however, and thanks to everyone who tuned in and supported WNKU in 2011.

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Vote for the Top 89
12:34 pm
Wed December 7, 2011

The Top 89 of 2011

The polls are now closed.  Thanks to everyone who voted for their favorite CD's of 2011!  We'll start counting down the Top 89 CD's on Monday morning, and some lucky listener will win the grand prize of the top 10 CD's of the year and an iPod Touch compliments of Strata G.

Top 89
12:00 am
Wed December 8, 2010

Top 89 of 2010

Here they are! The top 89 CD's of 2010 as voted on by our listeners!

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Top 89
12:00 am
Tue December 8, 2009

Top 89 of 2009

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Here they are! The top 89 CD's of 2009 as voted on by our listeners!

Want to buy of one these fantastic CD's? Just click on the name of the CD to purchase directly from Amazon and benefit WNKU at the same time. WNKU will receive up to 8 percent of the purchase price at no additional cost to you! Thanks for your support as always!

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Top 89
12:00 am
Mon December 8, 2008

Top 89 of 2008

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  1. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
  2. James McMurtry: Just Us Kids
  3. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
  4. Buddy Guy: Skin Deep
  5. Rodney Crowell: Sex And Gasoline
  6. Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Pusher
  7. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs
  8. Susan Tedeschi: Back to the River
  9. The Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete
  10. The Hiders : Penny Harvest Field
  11. John Hiatt : Same Old Man
  12. Dar Williams : Promised Land
  13. Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes
  14. Kathleen Edwards: Asking For Flowers
  15. John Mellencamp : Life, Death, Love & Freedom
  16. Alejandro Escovedo : Real Animal
  17. Jackson Browne: Time the Conqueror
  18. Aimee Mann : Smilers
  19. Taj Mahal : Maestro
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The Top 89
12:00 am
Fri December 7, 2007

Top 89 of 2007

  1. Over the Rhine: The Trumpet Child
  2. Robert Plant | Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
  3. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
  4. Patty Griffin: Children Running Through
  5. Lucinda Williams:West
  6. Steve Earle:Washington Square Serenade
  7. Bruce Springsteen: Magic
  8. Joni Mitchell: Shine
  9. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals:This Is Somewhere
  10. Lyle Lovett: It's Not Big It's Large
  11. Feist: The Reminder
  12. John Fogerty:Revival
  13. Levon Helm:Dirt Farmer
  14. Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
  15. Brandi Carlile: The Story
  16. Mark Knopfler: Kill To Get Crimson
  17. Ray LaMontagne: Til The Sun Turns Black
  18. Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals: Life Line
  19. Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of...
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Top 89
4:05 pm
Thu December 7, 2006

Top 89 of 2006

  1. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
  2. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris: All The Roadrunning
  3. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac
  4. Neil Young: Living With War
  5. Dixie Chicks: Taking The Long Way
  6. Old Crow Medicine Show: Big Iron World
  7. J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton: Road To Escondido
  8. Chris Smither: Leave The Light On
  9. Los Lobos: The Town & The City
  10. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
  11. Beck: The Information
  12. Los Lonely Boys: Sacred
  13. My Morning Jacket: Z
  14. Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome
  15. World Party: Dumbing Up
  16. Gomez: How We Operate
  17. Hiders: Valentine
  18. Ben Harper: Both Sides of the Gun
  19. K.T. Tunstall: Eye to the Telescope
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